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10 That is how the people of Moab and Ammon will be punished for their pride and arrogance and for insulting the people of the Lord Almighty. 11 The Lord will terrify them. He will reduce the gods of the earth to nothing, and then every nation will worship him, each in its own land.

12 (A)The Lord will also put the people of Ethiopia[a] to death.

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Footnotes

  1. Zephaniah 2:12 Hebrew Cush: Cush is the ancient name of the extensive territory south of the First Cataract of the Nile River. This region was called Ethiopia in Graeco-Roman times, and included within its borders most of modern Sudan and some of present-day Ethiopia (Abyssinia).

10 This is what they will get in return for their pride,(A)
    for insulting(B) and mocking
    the people of the Lord Almighty.(C)
11 The Lord will be awesome(D) to them
    when he destroys all the gods(E) of the earth.(F)
Distant nations will bow down to him,(G)
    all of them in their own lands.

Cush

12 “You Cushites,[a](H) too,
    will be slain by my sword.(I)

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Footnotes

  1. Zephaniah 2:12 That is, people from the upper Nile region